When faced with something that scares you, will you let fear win? Today’s guest, Catherine Tachdjian is the founder and publisher ofScrapbooks & Cards Today, a quarterly print magazine that helps people to embrace and enhance their creativity. She and I discuss how she learned to embrace fear and why it’s okay to be messy when you first get started with a new endeavor. She shares why she decided to start her magazine and why she put such a focus of community into it from the start. We also chat about how she got the idea to start hosting events and why it’s so important to her to be able to connect with the community at her events.
What’s in this episode:
What Catherine did prior to starting her magazine
Challenges that Catherine faces in the print media industry
Why Catherine put such a focus on community in the beginning
Deciding to do a quarterly magazine and her mission behind creating it
Why Catherine chooses to embrace fear
Catherine’s advice for dreaming big
How to handle negativity from others
Her experience with hosting events for the crafting community
Why Catherine likes smaller events and being able to connect on a personal level
About Catherine:
Catherine is the founder and publisher of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and hosts in-person education events across Canada. Since 2005 Catherine has worked with her amazing team to help people record their personal stories and memories through the magazine and at each Crop & Create event. With a passion for people, paper and pretty things, Catherine feels fortunate to do what she does.
Catherine has been married for over 27 years to Jack; they have two children aged 22 and 20 and a sweet pup named Bella! She enjoys traveling, cooking and dreaming up new marketing ideas.
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